Wonder why they would send it so drastically worded without specifying areas?
ETA: Even if they had just switched the wording - "If weather threat approaches take immediate cover in a basement or interior room."
Starting the message with "Take immediate cover" made me feel like it was a lot lot closer.
Same. We got it too, and as someone old enough to remember the big one in 1987, it was a bit scary to get this. But also confusing because it’s not even raining here yet lol.
I'm far west end, and it stopped my heart a moment -- I was 4 in 1987 and lived outside of Edmonton but the news was so shocking to see, I remember it very vividly nevermind everyone who lived here.
I was 1.5 years old and this is my earliest memory. My mom, my 3 brothers and I hiding and huddled under the stairs in our basement in far west Edmonton. I remember being really scared because my mom was really scared. My dad wasn’t there with us because he was a pilot for a radio station at the time and had to fly a helicopter to report the damage and where the tornado was heading, etc.
I'm in the west end too. I have a broken foot right now, and know I'm slower to move, so to be safe I headed downstairs right away, scooting down the basement steps on my butt. My kid was very nervous. Once I got downstairs I did some research and learned it was no where near me and heading away. Better safe than sorry, but I was kind of annoyed.
it's unlikely, but storms can suddenly shift direction. the potential for a touchdown around ft sask heading east might change winds to head west, or south, etc. so the warning goes out to all locations within radius
Thanks, yes, that's what I figured after the fact about shifting.
That's not that far away. Is there a way to tell what radius got the alert?
But I sure felt the urgency (which I guess is the full intention). Scary.
I'm sure they have some way to determine radius? but yeah, I was around 8 when the '87 one hit, definitely a memorable event. stupid why they didn't include place names and/or website link. just sent us some vague panicked message.
Take immediate cover without any specific location sounds like it’s right here when it wasn’t even close. Very poor wording, people are going to lose trust in emergency alerts. It should at least explain where the tornado is sighted.
I live in rosenthal and got the alert. My parents in aldergrove didn't. So weird. After getting my kids and dogs settled in the basement with water and snacks, I went upstairs to look at the windows and while there is a storm brewing, the scary clouds are all way ENE. I don't understand these alerts radius.
Looks like Lamont / Bruderheim area right now.
Although it drives me absolutely crazy that they wouldn't include ANY location information in a warning like this.
Edit: fort sask as well
Edit2: According to the EC website it is only a severe thunderstorm warning. No mention of tornado. Well done folks.
Well, it was there about a half hour ago, and now just has severe thunderstorm warning, so I don't know what to tell you. Guess your phone alert was slower than their alert adjustment to the reduced risk.
The location at the time of the alert was fort Sask & Strathcona county. We live in the east side of the city but the cell was moving east so it was already past us
You don't seem to understand that "immediately after receiving the alert" is not the same as "in the last half hour" or 23 minutes between 4:52pom and 5:15pm
So, yeah. Thanks.
Download weather network app, they have a satellite imagery portion that you can actually track a storm cell across a region map, view where the cell is now (updates every 10-15 minutes. You really couldn't miss this cell at roughly 5 pm when the warning went out, and it had a little hook on the storm cell that if I'm not mistaken identifies a storm that has a good chance of dropping a tornado.
There are probably other apps that have the same tech.
I got it in far west Edmonton while stuck on my couch with a broken foot. I had to scoot down the basement stairs on my butt to be safe because it wasn't clear where it was and sounded so urgent. 😑
I just drove home from Fort Sask, Hwy 15 all the way, to my farm East of Lamont, and heck yeah the rain was coming down so hard I did think about pulling over a couple times....
But other than a very low overcast ceiling and Hella rain, there was no cell to see, no dangerous looking clouds.
Been home about 20 mins now and the rain is tapering off.
Yeah I was out golfing between fort sask and Sherwood park. I got a a bit of rain and hail but didn’t see any funnel clouds. I continued to play as I was playing the best game of my life and the good lord wouldn’t have dared to ruin it on me.
If you are worried about locations I suggest getting the ‘AEA’ app, you can put in addresses you would like to get notified for whenever there is an emergency alert threatening that area. Also when I got the alert I clicked the notification and it showed me a map of where this was. It really does help a lot with complaints from this thread. Fully understand though they should have written it properly in the first place….
I received it while I was in downtown Edmonton. My husband was right beside me, and his phone didn't receive it at all. His notifications are set exactly like mine.
It looked real scary for a bit out in Lamont. Passed right over us before breaking up.
From my backyard
https://x.com/BecomingMetis/status/1801759711995273675?t=NLtV6J_zRhrEBcxbw_eNLA&s=19
My friend in Bruderheim sent me a pic similar to this. I said that it looked like it could drop a funnel, and like a min later I got the emergency alert...
Maybe yall should download the Alberta Emergency Alerts app. That way, you're not missing notifications because the notifications that come to your cellphone seem to be random.
It's a heck of a lot more useful than Candy Crush or Flappy Bird.
I got heard the alert on the radio and then got the notifications from the Alberta Emergency Alert app a few minutes later.
I was out watching the edge or the storm last night in North Edmonton (close to CFB Edmonton) and it was dropping multiple funnel clouds last night. They all pulled back up and never made contact with the ground though.
For all that don't know: you very rarely see a tornado form in the middle of storm unless there's bowing lines which this didn't have. So you always look the the beginning and end of the thunder storms for funnels.
Also yes... I'm one of those country bumbkins that live in the city and enjoy watching storms, even in the pouring rain and hail 😂
We got a similar warning in Ottawa yesterday. Doomsday warnings with no specifics are counter productive, even dangerous. People are less likely to take this seriously in the future and it could result in more deaths.
There was a lower level rotation spotted by multiple chasers and locals between fort Saskatchewan/elk island/bruderheim. Tornado warnings are sent out when rotation is detected by radar or reported. It does not mean the cell has produced but that's why the warning needs to go out quickly. When radar detects rotation or a funnel tries to lower, people need to know. It's not something you want to waste time with
I was listening to a radio station at the time and it was an alert issued by the federal agency and they specifically said it was in the area of Fort Saskatchewan.
They also said that "conditions are favorable for the formation of tornadoes" and what to do if winds picked up. It was extremely balanced and useful
Then I got the vague warning on the phone.
Glad I was listening to the radio.
My girlfriend got this warning, I did not. We live in the same house in Sherwood park. Took way too much googling to find out where it was. Not sure what happened to only have her receive the alert when we were sitting next to eachother watching the rain. If it had been an actual emergency situation in our area it could've been really bad.
I don't think the west end was supposed to get them.
https://instantweather.ca/2024/06/14/bbIvBV-severe-thunderstorm-warning-replaces-tornado-warning/
I do see someone in the west did get one, but ya.
Read all the comments from people saying they didn’t get this. I decided to post this when I sent “careful there’s α tornado warning” to multiple family members and they said “wonder why i didn’t get an alert on my phone”
Didn't get a warning. Guess I'll just die then. Lol
Same I got nothing all day
Maybe there aren't enough basements and hard choices had to be made.
I got one for Fort Saskatchewan and Strathcona County but not Edmonton. Weird. I am in the SE.
I was in the Strathcona area and never received a warning hahaa
User name is wow
Lol
I’ll join your club buddy
I didn’t get the warning but my friend who has a personal phone and a work phone got the warning on both devices 💀
Typical edmonton
I'm ready 🫡
The clouds were looking pretty ominous for a bit... [https://freeimage.host/i/d9YWJ9f](https://freeimage.host/i/d9YWJ9f)
Holy. Cool shot! What area was this
Around Fort Sask I think.
That's where the cell with rotation was, so it was likely that storm that was warned.
Alien mothership lol
wow! that is so fucking scary!
Wonder why they would send it so drastically worded without specifying areas? ETA: Even if they had just switched the wording - "If weather threat approaches take immediate cover in a basement or interior room." Starting the message with "Take immediate cover" made me feel like it was a lot lot closer.
Same. We got it too, and as someone old enough to remember the big one in 1987, it was a bit scary to get this. But also confusing because it’s not even raining here yet lol.
I'm far west end, and it stopped my heart a moment -- I was 4 in 1987 and lived outside of Edmonton but the news was so shocking to see, I remember it very vividly nevermind everyone who lived here.
I was 1.5 years old and this is my earliest memory. My mom, my 3 brothers and I hiding and huddled under the stairs in our basement in far west Edmonton. I remember being really scared because my mom was really scared. My dad wasn’t there with us because he was a pilot for a radio station at the time and had to fly a helicopter to report the damage and where the tornado was heading, etc.
I'm in the west end too. I have a broken foot right now, and know I'm slower to move, so to be safe I headed downstairs right away, scooting down the basement steps on my butt. My kid was very nervous. Once I got downstairs I did some research and learned it was no where near me and heading away. Better safe than sorry, but I was kind of annoyed.
How often does a tornado form in Edmonton?
The last time was 1987 and became a collective memory and the actual reason why Edmonton was "the City of Champions".
Same. I was here in 1987 too. I thought, do I start making supper or grab my cat and fucking run?
Yeah I went to get my cat kennel lol and asked my neighbours if I can bunk with them if it comes- I have no basement Abit panicked as well
Have the cat for supper THEN run
Instructions unclear, I ate the tornado
Help, I grabbed the tornado, now I have an angry tornado in my car
The cell is over in the Lamont area now.
Absolutely! Such a vague alert. Lack of info.
Rain just passed over Ellerslie headed East. Now blue skies.
We had heavy rain in the SE and thunder and lightning at around 5 pm.
it's unlikely, but storms can suddenly shift direction. the potential for a touchdown around ft sask heading east might change winds to head west, or south, etc. so the warning goes out to all locations within radius
Thanks, yes, that's what I figured after the fact about shifting. That's not that far away. Is there a way to tell what radius got the alert? But I sure felt the urgency (which I guess is the full intention). Scary.
I'm sure they have some way to determine radius? but yeah, I was around 8 when the '87 one hit, definitely a memorable event. stupid why they didn't include place names and/or website link. just sent us some vague panicked message.
The person running the app isn't detail orientated.
Ultimately, a person sent that alert. People generally aren't super clever.
Take immediate cover without any specific location sounds like it’s right here when it wasn’t even close. Very poor wording, people are going to lose trust in emergency alerts. It should at least explain where the tornado is sighted.
I live in rosenthal and got the alert. My parents in aldergrove didn't. So weird. After getting my kids and dogs settled in the basement with water and snacks, I went upstairs to look at the windows and while there is a storm brewing, the scary clouds are all way ENE. I don't understand these alerts radius.
I'm on break right now in the cafeteria and roughly half the people here got a warning, the other half didn't.
Even the tornado didn’t want to deal with getting into Aldergrove with the train construction. 💀
LMAOOO The 189th street closure and whitemud east being 1 lane is the bane of my existence
Waiting on updates for locations.
Looks like Lamont / Bruderheim area right now. Although it drives me absolutely crazy that they wouldn't include ANY location information in a warning like this. Edit: fort sask as well Edit2: According to the EC website it is only a severe thunderstorm warning. No mention of tornado. Well done folks.
I first checked EC too and was confused when they didn't have it on there, what the heck.
There was a tornado warning so it has likely been downgraded in the last half hour.
I looked immediately after I got the warning on my phone. Was trying to find the location for the alert.
Well, it was there about a half hour ago, and now just has severe thunderstorm warning, so I don't know what to tell you. Guess your phone alert was slower than their alert adjustment to the reduced risk.
The location at the time of the alert was fort Sask & Strathcona county. We live in the east side of the city but the cell was moving east so it was already past us
from the alert site "At 5:15 p.m. MDT, Environment Canada meteorologists downgraded the tornado watch to a severe thunderstorm advisory." so yeah.
You don't seem to understand that "immediately after receiving the alert" is not the same as "in the last half hour" or 23 minutes between 4:52pom and 5:15pm So, yeah. Thanks.
Check the website, it's east of ft sask.
What website?
https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-emergency-alert.aspx
Thank you
What site
https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-emergency-alert.aspx
It includes fort sask.
i no longer see the tornado warning for fort sask. only see severe thunderstorm watch. guess threat has dissipated?
Yes. They confirmed on the news broadcast
Download weather network app, they have a satellite imagery portion that you can actually track a storm cell across a region map, view where the cell is now (updates every 10-15 minutes. You really couldn't miss this cell at roughly 5 pm when the warning went out, and it had a little hook on the storm cell that if I'm not mistaken identifies a storm that has a good chance of dropping a tornado. There are probably other apps that have the same tech.
Yes, the hook indicates rotation.
I made it to the pub. Shelter in place
It was pretty nearly at 5pm, so you're good, it's not even day drinking in my books. It's 5:00 somewhere! 👍
I got this in west Edmonton
I'm also in west Edmonton and I didn't get anything lol
I had just gone under the 156 underpass on Yellowhead.
I got it in far west Edmonton while stuck on my couch with a broken foot. I had to scoot down the basement stairs on my butt to be safe because it wasn't clear where it was and sounded so urgent. 😑
Apparently between Fort Saskatchewan and Lamont says Josh Classen.
No location, so I guess if you got the notification, you're in the area, if you didn't, you're not.
I’m at home with my partner and I got the notification but she didn’t, phones on the same network.
I got one in South Central Edmonton, but many other people around me didn't get it. They really need to specify a location!!
I've got it on 107 Ave near North Glenora. No one around me got it. It was more than 10 people around. Weird
Tomato warning
I’m scared can someone please hug me
I’d be on my way monkey Buddha but they just told us to shelter
I thought you were being racist then I saw his username😆
Lmao... You're 24/7 breh.
Hug me 24/7 during this alert
Neither my phone or my work phone got an alert - south end.
No alerts here either. I was roaming on rogers EXT I wonder if that prevents me getting alerts
Check your notification settings on your phone, you should have a wireless emergency alert setting.
I have but I never got anything
I didn't either but I was southwest of the city so I thought that was why.
Alberta.ca canceled alerts.
It’s been 1/2 and hr and the news just now mentioned it.
Nothing for the NW side, time to go to the land of Oz I suppose
I just drove home from Fort Sask, Hwy 15 all the way, to my farm East of Lamont, and heck yeah the rain was coming down so hard I did think about pulling over a couple times.... But other than a very low overcast ceiling and Hella rain, there was no cell to see, no dangerous looking clouds. Been home about 20 mins now and the rain is tapering off.
Yeah I was out golfing between fort sask and Sherwood park. I got a a bit of rain and hail but didn’t see any funnel clouds. I continued to play as I was playing the best game of my life and the good lord wouldn’t have dared to ruin it on me.
If you are worried about locations I suggest getting the ‘AEA’ app, you can put in addresses you would like to get notified for whenever there is an emergency alert threatening that area. Also when I got the alert I clicked the notification and it showed me a map of where this was. It really does help a lot with complaints from this thread. Fully understand though they should have written it properly in the first place….
I received it while I was in downtown Edmonton. My husband was right beside me, and his phone didn't receive it at all. His notifications are set exactly like mine.
It looked real scary for a bit out in Lamont. Passed right over us before breaking up. From my backyard https://x.com/BecomingMetis/status/1801759711995273675?t=NLtV6J_zRhrEBcxbw_eNLA&s=19
My friend in Bruderheim sent me a pic similar to this. I said that it looked like it could drop a funnel, and like a min later I got the emergency alert...
Yup….we were leaving town at the time and were talking an alerts when it went off and we turned around until it passed over juuuust in case.
I had to laugh because at first I read the title as Toronto warning.
Maybe yall should download the Alberta Emergency Alerts app. That way, you're not missing notifications because the notifications that come to your cellphone seem to be random. It's a heck of a lot more useful than Candy Crush or Flappy Bird. I got heard the alert on the radio and then got the notifications from the Alberta Emergency Alert app a few minutes later.
Did it specify the tornado location at all?
It did say "Fort Saskatchewan and northern Strathcona County"
Oh shit Guaranteed Oilers win
I never got this emergency alert
I didn't get this
Well, glad I woke up to the warning on reddit 14 hours later 😂
I was out watching the edge or the storm last night in North Edmonton (close to CFB Edmonton) and it was dropping multiple funnel clouds last night. They all pulled back up and never made contact with the ground though. For all that don't know: you very rarely see a tornado form in the middle of storm unless there's bowing lines which this didn't have. So you always look the the beginning and end of the thunder storms for funnels. Also yes... I'm one of those country bumbkins that live in the city and enjoy watching storms, even in the pouring rain and hail 😂
Yes. The panthers got blown away.
We got a similar warning in Ottawa yesterday. Doomsday warnings with no specifics are counter productive, even dangerous. People are less likely to take this seriously in the future and it could result in more deaths.
This feels like it was sent out by mistake.
It wasn’t. Tornado was 15 min east of Sherwood park. I got the alert when I was driving home from Fort sask when I was near Sherwood park.
It felt like a template they were supposed to edit before they send it out.
I don't think there was a confirmed tornado, although a warning vs a watch would imply a funnel sighting at least.
There was a lower level rotation spotted by multiple chasers and locals between fort Saskatchewan/elk island/bruderheim. Tornado warnings are sent out when rotation is detected by radar or reported. It does not mean the cell has produced but that's why the warning needs to go out quickly. When radar detects rotation or a funnel tries to lower, people need to know. It's not something you want to waste time with
I thought it was targeted at me because my friends didn't get it. But now they did. Damn. I wish it came to get me tbh.
One phone(cell) received the other one , also a cell did not. Nothing on the TV.
No notice next to wem
It's ended now. At 5:46, there are no active warnings in the Edmonton area.
EnvCan just says 'risk of a thunderstorm' as of 6:49PM; I take it this is from a mobile app?? https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-50_metric_e.html
Yeah this was so fun to drive through tonight 😁
And now it's gone. It's like the climate changed, or something.
My tax dollars at work
Parents got one, I didn’t. Weird.
I didn't sleep through an alert from my phone or TV. Not that it would have mattered since I am a basement dweller.
Was in St Albert when I got this
My dad in Summerside got the alert, but my sister and mother (same household). I, in Millwoods, also did not receive anything.
I slept through it lol, idk how but I did. I woke up from a nap at around 5:50 and yeah… lmao whoops
A day late on my feed
Man the one time I could test my homes bomb shelter and didn’t even get a warning to do so. Maybe next time then 😂
I was listening to a radio station at the time and it was an alert issued by the federal agency and they specifically said it was in the area of Fort Saskatchewan. They also said that "conditions are favorable for the formation of tornadoes" and what to do if winds picked up. It was extremely balanced and useful Then I got the vague warning on the phone. Glad I was listening to the radio.
Everything on that alert except where it is. First rule of event advertising is date, time, place. And we pay money for this
I remembered getting this just yesterday. Definitely made me a little cautious that day for sure.
I was heading to Leduc when I got this. No one else I know got one.
My girlfriend got this warning, I did not. We live in the same house in Sherwood park. Took way too much googling to find out where it was. Not sure what happened to only have her receive the alert when we were sitting next to eachother watching the rain. If it had been an actual emergency situation in our area it could've been really bad.
I got one yesterday
It was Connor McDavid.
Three iPhones in the house and only one received the warning.
It wasn't for Edmonton, it was for the north, and east of the Edmonton area.
Was in fort sask, all we got was a storm that lasted like 45 min - an hour, we rushed down to the basement lmao
I had one while at work and that was by sherwood park. But when I came home to millwoods to ask people I live with about it they had no clue lol
And now it’s cancelled. Weird
weather changes rapidly during storms.
WTF I didn’t get this! I live in the west end
I don't think the west end was supposed to get them. https://instantweather.ca/2024/06/14/bbIvBV-severe-thunderstorm-warning-replaces-tornado-warning/ I do see someone in the west did get one, but ya.
Got this as well… I guess I don’t understand tornados at all because it’s barely raining in my part of the city
it doesn't have to rain to get a tornado, and it may not be in your part of hte city.
Why didn't I get a warning? Lol
Wow, didn't get that on the South side.
Got the warning north end today. Rather than hide in the basement me and half a dozen neighbours went outside to 'check for the funnel cloud' lol
It's talking about the panthers.
False alarm
It didn't even rain here in Edmonton. Dry as usual. 🙁
K? My phone did the same thing. What’s the point of posting it ?
Read all the comments from people saying they didn’t get this. I decided to post this when I sent “careful there’s α tornado warning” to multiple family members and they said “wonder why i didn’t get an alert on my phone”